Shane Mauss

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530 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 3 Jul

Shane Mauss’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Whiskey Ginger with Andrew Santino · Shane Mauss Is Back On The Show! | Whiskey Ginger · 3 Jul 2026 podcast

Have you ever noticed this and that?

It's the same thing that you watch.

Actually.

And as a comedian, you have to be so thoughtful because you find out because your ideas get run through the gauntlet of the audience.

And it's not even that an idea is necessarily bad.

It might be that you have had so much more time to think about it.

You're so much more ahead of the idea that you take for granted.

One of my favorite most pretentious, most pretentiously named cognitive biases is the curse of knowledge, which is

Once you know something, it is hard to get back in the place of not knowing that thing.

Doug Stanhope had this amazing bit about how he didn't know it was about that.

but it's about like he, I'm gonna butcher it, but it's about how he will yell at someone for not knowing a thing that he learned yesterday.

How do you not know that?

And so you find that out on stage where it's like, oh, I'm not conveying this.

I'm taking it for granted that

They're in my head and know all of the things that I know.

So then you have to, like, what may feel like dumbing something down is just making something more clear.

Well, it's also because we have these, so one of my favorite concepts to think about is that we have these social brains that tend to over-perceive, they tend to conflate the knowledge in other people's brains with what's in our own heads.

So this is like part of, there's a whole field of study, which is the illusion of explanatory depth, which is kind of hilarious and fascinating, which is that you

You ask someone, this is related to one of the things kind of getting out there in the zeitgeist is the Dunning-Kruger effect.

You've heard this.

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